Michael Bell

Hegseth trying to be Patton flopped harder than DeSantis’s presidential campaign and the last season of “Game of Thrones” combined.

The soundtrack to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has no business being this good.

Anybody in #houston #nokings

Rapper Bun B’s viral burger chain is growing again, with a fourth Trill Burgers location planned west of the Galleria.
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I've had a twitter account since they came on the scene at sxsw in 2007 and were the "darlings" of the tech world. I kept it after Elon turned it into 4chan, to see what happened and for different perspectives. Deleting my 18yr old account today after tolerating the sesspool of bigotry and ignorance

"Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God"

-Captain Malcom Reynolds

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

-James Baldwin

Brian Driscoll, the acting director of the FBI, sporting curly hair, a kinda rakish jazz dirtbag moustache and beard combo, a faintly amused look in his eyes and a wry "whaddaya gonna do" smirk

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

Conservative film critic who called child trafficking movie a 'call to action' arrested for child molestation Aaron Gleason is currently out on bail.

File this under: "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise"

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I love making an edamame chicken salad with those things. So good

Spam Emails, Spam Lawsuit: The GOP Tries To Break Gmail By Court Order In 1872 California enacted a law declaring that “every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he …

Also, from @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social, the GOP is trying desperately to outlaw your spam filter with an absolutely nonsensical reading of a 19th century law about the mail.

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DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button Get ready to follow your colleagues

Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button. Microsoft has started testing this internally, and it lets you share announcements with colleagues. I dig into Microsoft Teams' Storyline feature in Notepad today, live for subscribers 👇 www.theverge.com/notepad-micr...

There's USAID YouTube channels with hundreds/thousands of videos going back 12 years

Cyberpunk Classic NEUROMANCER Apple TV+ Series Casts Mark Strong as Armitage William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk science fiction novel Neuromancer will soon become a streaming series for Apple TV+.

One of my favorite books, and the one that coined the term cyber-space! I'm SFR.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans DeepSeek, RedNote and other Chinese-backed AI platforms The proclamation orders adds six technologies, including DeepSeek, Lemon8 and RedNote, to the state's prohibited technologies list.

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OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

Interesting. Also deepseek appears to be under attack right now. Drama

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doomguy protagonist's head on white space. to the right, text: well, go click on your icons then. i'll be waiting. options/buttons: continue, quit.

the ultimate doom, quit prompt, macintosh (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/707/the...

I'm moving lofts today. The first user to message me from my Plex server about it being down gets deleted. Just sayin.

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Great read and warning...

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It's weird that the same people who want to abolish the separation of church and state are so up in arms about a bishop asking for mercy, essential tenant of Christ's message.

Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok TikTok has less than 75 days to make a deal.

here we go again. Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok. TikTok owner ByteDance is still one of Microsoft’s biggest Azure AI customers www.theverge.com/2025/1/25/24...

Not quite the same thing but I love my virtue ar glasses. I use them often.

The Apple Mac turns 41 today. That is all.

Are we in Germany 1938 or France 1788?

I'll take places I'll never go and shouldn't exist for $200 please Alex.

a man in a hooded robe is standing in front of a screen that says " execute order 66 " ALT: a man in a hooded robe is standing in front of a screen that says " execute order 66 "

Today's vibe:

In case it wasn’t clear: it was never about eggs.